[Marily]

I started my first dose of Herceptin 5 years ago and was given pre meds .. after that had nothing until a few months ago after I had an "allergic reaction" to the Herceptin..First we tried it with Decadron and was "not me for three and 1/2 days. My husband wanted to take me back and get the real me. I was bouncing off the walls and did not sleep for the whole three days. We than went to Benedryl Iv with tylenol and I got sleepy from the waist up and dancing legs from the waist down..but less headache, they added atavan,that made me sleep all the rest of the day. We cut the dose to 1/2 and I did better and held off the atavan even though I still was having restless legs. I did not like to loose a whole day sleeping. I tried 1/4 of the Benedryl iv dose and had problems with mouth sores, and abdominal problems and started having cramping in my legs again, Now have gone back to 5 mgm iv Benedryl and dancing..along with the tylenol ( I do get a headache but not bad with the tylenol) I will see what happens, I took this yesterday again. I just do not want that allergic reaction again! Marily